Experimentation in a real environment is quite problem due to the high financial cost and the time required to accomplish it. Above all that, the tests are not repeatable, because many variables cannot be controlled with in the test, which may affect the results. Therefore, using simulation frameworks to evaluate cloud applications is preferred. It is extremely difficult to use real infrastructures for benchmarking the application performance (throughput, cost benefits) under inconstant conditions. Therefore, we cannot execute benchmarking experiments using real-world Cloud environments. To overcome this challenge, the use of simulation tool is the best applicable choice to the developers with substantial resources and parallelized execution. These simulation tools offer the researchers the chance to evaluate the hypothesis in a measured environment and simply emulate the output results. This paper have reviewed and classified the most updates and extends simulation platforms in cloud computing and gave examples on each.